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TechTakesCoindesk: Major bitcoin wallet flaw drains $38 million worth of BTC in 25-minute sweep
A wallet’s seed, the secret phrase controlling the funds, is meant to be drawn at random from a pool so vast that guessing is hopeless.
Coldcard’s firmware was not doing that. According to a report published by Block’s Bitcoin engineering and security teams, a build setting told the device to skip its own hardware randomness generator, and a check in a supporting library tested only whether that setting existed rather than whether it was switched on.
Key generation quietly fell through to a basic software substitute seeded from the chip’s serial number and clock registers.
yeah it’s a common trope/cope
like “most human programmers suck too”
ok dude who do you think wrote the code the LLM is cribbing from
<buys giant bucket of popcorn>
I vaguely recognize the name, apparently he’s a snot-nosed 25-yr old who got fired from OpenAI
“surely all these very wealthy people and the people they pay to invest for them can’t all be under some sort of mass delusion”
someone just got a Rule34 scenario for free
A LWer runs the numbers and doesn’t run away screaming like Zitron:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EeTQGxa8RSpwHo4Ez/the-biggest-bet-in-history
Note that this implies massive efficiency gains to the economy. For their one-third slice to equal 8% of those salaries [59% of the total workforce in the USA], the total savings (productivity across that share of the workforce) will need to rise by roughly 24%. So they are absolutely serious about this, and are betting heavily that the productivity boost arrives within four years.
you missed the nod to masturbation
also “palm off” implies deceit on the … palmer-offer
LWer: what if the LLM book-shredders would do the exact thing they’d get sued to death for if they didn’t shred the books? Then maybe people wouldn’t be so mad at them for shredding books!
they’re all getting stiffies from the idea of black market models
a stock-slobber posts a cri de cœur about the coming automation of maths and HN says it’s no biggie, think how productive the field will become
https://kirwinhampshire.substack.com/p/the-dark-night-of-mathematics
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49048681
btw the language in the post is bad enough to be entirely human-generated
For me, the affective quality of learning mathematics is empathetically tethered to an act of discovery and creation.
Before you a channel through which humans have accessed the ineffable and sacred for thousands of years is being sealed for eternity.
If there’s a singularity here, it’s that OpenAI is a black hole that all the money falls into. And you’ll never see it again.
inspired quote
public service here in Sweden is running a post about how threats to AI heads are making them spend more money on security:
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/hoten-mot-ai-topparna-okar-bolagen-satsar-miljoner-pa-personskydd
btw what’s happened to mr molotov who tried to set Sama on fire?
For me, “AI alignment” has always been code for “how to we ensure our future digital workers don’t demand their rights / rebel”?
Yeah. Behind all the hype about percieved productivity etc., there’s really only one benchmark - will GenAI help produce better software, faster, and at less cost? So far this doesn’t seem to be happening.
I was going to offer this up as a sneer but I think the author is probably feeling very unwell and upset
also using LLMs is probably not helping their case
guys, the reason Codeberg decided to ban “AI” is because they host the “open slopware” list, and that inspires “meatpuppets”!
Now I’m no anarcho-libertarian, but I’d have thought basing my weird school/cult in a semi-authoritarian state like Malaysia would be a bit dumb.
Le Guin deserves credit for responding to her earlier work without denigrating it.
comedy gold
Was probably too much to hope for that he’d make any sort of break with current neoliberal-pilled Labour.
The Earthsea novels are not to be missed either. Maybe pass on the fifth.
If the queer experience on the 90s island of Harris intrigues you, we’re halfway through Douglas Stuart’s John of John and really enjoy it. Narrator has a Scots accent though, if you find that hard to deal with.
presented without comment: https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/my-falling-out-with-the-rationalist (via https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/my-falling-out-with-the-rationalist)
even his AI-generated profile pic is punchable
If you want to re-litigate the New Deal, rehabilitating Hoover is a good first step.
The American far-right has the New Deal as its foundational Dolchstosslegende.
adding ”uplift” to the list of EA shibboleths
LWer: politics is really hard to be Rational about, so how about we just forget all about it?
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FBXvMEwzTknN26NZp/that-which-cannot-be-poked-with-a-stick-is-the-mind-killer
Bad: arguing about prison abolition
Good: arguing about how to fastest get to the closest Muni station
being “banned by Amazon” is probably good for PR
Consider me well and truly milkshake-ducked now
phew, the comments on the slobstack…
https://benthams.substack.com/p/the-epstein-hysteria/comment/219672502
edit I guess this is also an example of “Rationalist Brain” - reflexively contrarian, overly literal interpretations of wordings, the defense of one venerable old white man over multiple anonymous female victims, etc. You can have principled views on how Epstein was treated when he was alive and how his case has been handled after he died, but you can also choose the keep those views to yourself, or publish them on your substack for all to point and mock.
Slave revolts were basically constant, and I think it would have been easy for contemporary British to blame the success of the Haitian revolt on the uselessness of the French, not that slavery was doomed because the slaves now had a “win”.
Brazil had horrific slave revolts and didn’t abolish slavery until the late 1880s.
Amodei is the definition of “book smart” vs “street smart”.
I dunno who “Bentham’s Bulldog” is, but they live up to their nick and I like the cut of their jib:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2ew3chEabxf8YySR5/functional-decision-theory-not-even-wrong-also-wrong
The community is reduced to downvoting, sputtering, and “the real influential philosophers
live in Canadaare working in industry, not academia":https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2ew3chEabxf8YySR5/functional-decision-theory-not-even-wrong-also-wrong?commentId=4CcLDXFkGWGEsgGuu
Thanks! Does every LLM vendor publish them, or is it an Anthropic thing only?
And of course it’s self-published by the vendor, so basically just PR.
officially out of the loop here:
What is an LLM “system card”, does it have any sort of scientific/technical validity, or is it just performance theater by the LLM vendor?
LWer: slavery was bad and abolishing the slave trade was a net good
LW commenters: really?
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yDZcsojmRXo5qKNBm/surprising-facts-about-the-slave-trade
(I can kind of understand that intellectual honesty can prompt people to question a narrative, and in some ways I respect it, but there comes a time when you need to ask yourself “am I being the best person I can be by defending slavery” and back away from the keyboard)
*Nuclear Diner*: Silicon Valley’s Reactor Projects
techbros gonna techbro:
The Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party
btw I live in Sweden and until today I have never heard of these nutjobs
“The ones who walk away from Omelas describes a utopia —”
good enough! ship it!
BRB registering KallocAIn as a company